New Delhi, Oct. 14 -- The Supreme Court has termed the Ghaziabad Police's attempt to obtain extensive digital data of journalist Abhishek Upadhyay in connection with an alleged road-rage incident as an "overkill".

The Court observed that while investigative agencies were entitled to probe an offence, the manner in which such powers were exercised could not become a means to access a person's private digital life.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi quashed a notice issued by the Ghaziabad Police to Upadhyay seeking his call records and other digital data for a period extending months before the alleged road-rage incident.

The Court also continued the interim protection from arrest grant...